Reversible bed spring and mattress support



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Patented Oct. 22, 1935 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE James l. Parrish, Indianapolis, Ind. Application August 22, 1934, Serial No. 740,919

7 Claims.

This invention relates to bed spring supports and moreespecially to bed spring supports which may be used to maintain the bed springs and mattress at different angular and lateral positions as required, or at diierent levels; and consists substantially, in the construction, combination, and arrangement of parts as hereinafter set forth and pointed lout more particularly in the accompanying claims.

It is an object of the invention to provide ledges, adjustably supported as to height on the side rails of a conventional bed.l

It is a further object to provide a device of this class comprising plates which serve to be secured to the inner faces of the bed side rails,

said plates having a plurality of the hook engaging openings arranged in vertical alignment with each other; and support means each having a normally horizontal and a normally vertical section of diierent lengths, said sections being reversible as to normal position in attaining a range of heights; and a hook means on each of said sections either of which serves to engage selected ones of said openings as desired.

It is a further object to provide a device of this class with ledges which may serve to support and laterally locate a variety of different types of bed springs and mattresses.

The above and other objects are attained by the structures illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which similar characters of reference designatesimilar parts throughout the diierent views, of which;

Figure 1 is a fragmentary sectional assembly view illustrating the manner of embodying a set of the devices with the side rail of a conventional bed;

Fig. 2 is an enlarged perspective view illustrating one of the ledge engaging plates.

Fig. 3 is an enlarged perspective view of one of the bed spring supporting ledges.

Fig. 4 is an enlarged fragmentary sectional view of the bed side rails embodying a pair of the devices and illustrating different supporting positions and heights thereof.

Referring to Figure l, the numeral I designates the side rail of a typical wooden bed, the inner vertical faces of the side rail being exposed to view.- The numeral 2 designates the head of the bed to which the forward end of the side rail I is conventionally attached and the numeral 3 designates the foot of the bed to which the side rail is likewise attached. The numerals 4 and 5 designate the forward and rearward spring or mattress support plates, respectively, which are mounted to the inner face of the side rail I, a vertical row of hook receiving holes 6 being formed in each of said plates as best shown in Fig. 2,'and said plates being conveniently. secured in place on the side rail by means of ordi 5 nary wood screws 1.

Referring to Figure 1 in view of Fig. 3 it will be understood that the right angle ledges 8 consist of two cio-joining sections spaced substantially ninety degrees apart, said sections each 10 form hooks il at their outer extremities either of which sections may be hooked thereby in selected one of said holes or over the upper edges of the plates, as desired, thus supporting the other section of each ledge as a horizontal mattress or spring supporting surface. While the engaging of the ledges 8 with different holes 6 of the plates 4 and 5 or over the edges of same Will give a selection of ledge heights, the two sections of each ledge are of different lengths by which feature it will be understood that further adjustment as to the supporting height of same may be made by engaging one or the other of the sections by its respective hook with one of said plate holes. For illustration, if the engagement of the shorter section ledge is tried in the diiierent holes and none of these heights are satisfactory, the same number of different mattress or spring supporting heights may be attained by engaging the other ledge section with themrespective plate, it being further understood that a wider range of supporting heights may be attained between highest supporting position of the ledge with its shorter section engaged and the lowest supporting position of the ledge with the longer section engaged.

Referring .again to Figure 1, the numeral I0 designates the short section of the forward ledge which is hooked over the top of the forward plate a as indicated by dotted lines 4A in Fig. 4, while 40 the numeral II designates the long section of the rearward support which is hooked in the lower hole of plate 5, as indicated by the solid lines 5A in Fig. 4, the other ledge sections I2 and I3 serving in this example of the invention as spring supporting surfaces. The section I 2 is thus supported in an extreme upper working position, while the section I3 is supported in an extreme low position, thus supporting the mattress indicated by the dotted lines I4 in a more extreme 50 angular position than would be possible in using supporting ledges which cannotbe usedto. attain more supporting heights than the number of engaging places in the plates.

It will of course be understood that both ledges are positioned as illustrated with plate 4 in Figure 1 when an extremely high level position of the bed springs is attained, and that an extremely low level position of the springs is .attained when both ledges are positioned as illustrated with plate 5, it being further understood that awide range of spring heights, and a wide range of angular spring positions are carried into effect between the extreme positions described by changing the positions in respect to diierent, or the same holes in the plates 4 and 5.

A hole I5 is formed through each section of each ledge near the extremities thereof, said hole being adapted to receive a vertical pin I6 when such section is in horizontal position, said pin passing also through a corresponding hole in the edge member of the bed spring frame. It will also be understood that in using one or the other of the ledge sections as the spring supporting surface, spring frames of diiferent widths may be thus accommodated, in the same width bed-stead.

Each ofthe ledge sections is also provided with a mattress and'spring locating shoulder I1 said shoulders facing in the direction of their respective section extremity. Said shoulders serve yto conne the mattress or springs and more especiallybox mattresses, laterally at the lower, side, corners thereof, and adjustment to different width mattress or springs is made by using the longer or'shorter oi the ledge sections as the supporting surface.

In many instances it is desirable to decentraliy locate the mattress or springs, for example it is desirable to shift the mattress from the side of a bed facing the wall in order to more conveniently tuck the covers of the bed down on the thus remote side of the bed without moving the bed from Y the Wall under which conditions the ledges on the remote side are positioned as illustrated by dotted lines I8 in Fig. 4 the ledges on the other side of the bed being positioned as illustrated by dotted lines I9, by which arrangement the mattress indicated by dotted lines 20, being confined between the shoulders indicated by dotted lines 2| and 22 is thus located farther from the remote side rail l. Bed springs are also decentrally located in the bed in the sameA manner with the additional fea-- ture of using the pins I 6, when desirable.

Y While the description and drawings illustrate in aV general Way certain instrumentalities which may be employed in carrying the invention into reiect, it is evident that many modifications may be made in the various detailsv without departing from the scope of they appended claims, it being understood that the invention is not restricted to the particular examples herein described.

The invention claimed is:

1. In conjunction with the side rail of a bed,

a vertical plate having ledge engaging holes atv different heights, a supporting ledge having two right angularly arranged sections of different lengths, each section having a hole engaging hook formed on the extremity thereof, either section of which ledge serves to Yhook; in any selected hole in the respective plate, whereby the ledge may be removably attached to the plate by either section, and support a bed mattress or springs on the other section at a height different from the supporting height of said one section when said other section is engaged in the same hole.

2. In conjunction with the side rail of a bed, a vertical plate having derent ledge engaging vdifferent from the supporting height of one section when the other of said sections is engaged with said plate.

3. In conjunction with the side rail of a bed, 15

' a vertical plate having different ledge engaging means at different heights, a supporting ledge having two co-joined right angularly arranged sections, each section having a plate engaging means formed at different distances from the co- 20 joining point of said sections either of said plate engaging means serving to engage either of said ledge engaging means as desired, whereby the ledge'may be removably attached to the plate by either section, and support a bed mattress o125 springs on the other section at a height different from the supporting height of said one section when said other section is engaged with said plate.

4. In conjunction with the side rail of a bed, a vertical plate having ledge engaging means, a supporting ledge having two co-joined right angularly arranged sections, each section having a. bed spring engaging means, said spring engaging means being formed at different distances from the co-joining point of said sections either of said plate engaging means serving to engage said ledge engaging means as desired, and serving to be thus adjusted to engage bed springs of diierent widths.

5. In conjunction with the side rail of a bed, a vertical plate having different ledge engaging means, a supporting ledge having two co-joined right angularly arranged sections, each section having a mattress locating shoulder formed at different distances from the co-joining point of said sections either of said plate engaging means serving to engage said ledge engaging means as desired, and serving to be thus adjusted to locate mattresses o1' diierent Widths. 50

6. In conjunction with the side rail of a bed, a vertical plate having ledge engaging means, a supporting ledge having twoV co-joined right angularly arranged sections, each section having a bed spring engaging means, said spring engaging means being formed at different distances from the co-joining point of said sections either of said plate engaging means serving to engage said ledge engaging means as desired, and serving to be thus adjusted to engage and decentrally 50 locate bed springs in beds.

7. In conjunction with the side rail of a bed, a vertical plate having different ledge engaging means, a supporting ledge having two co-joined right angularly arranged sections, each section G5 having a mattress locating shoulder formed at different distances from the co-joining point of said sections either of said plate engaging means serving to engage said ledge engaging means as desired and serving to be thus adjusted to decentrally locate mattresses in beds.

JAMES I` PARRISH. 

